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Wallis Wilde-Menozzi

Portrait of translator Wallis Wilde-Menozzi

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Wallis Wilde-Menozzi

Italy

Wallis Wilde-Menozzi’s third book with FSG, Silence and Silences, published in December 2021, crosses storytelling, nonfiction, and culture....

An American poet living in Italy for forty years, she has published two memoirs, Mother Tongue and The Other Side of the Tiber, as well as the novel Toscanelli’s Ray, literary essays on Natalia Ginzburg and Primo Levi, the poetry collection School for Pears, and a translation of The Enola Gay.

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Articles by Wallis Wilde-Menozzi

The World’s Bloom: Three Italian Poets

By Wallis Wilde-Menozzi

These poets are surrounded by a poetic tradition that has often regarded style and illusion as essential ends; consequently, they harness the suggestiveness and sensuousness of the Italian language in simultaneously familiar and original terms.

Landscape

By Antonella Anedda

I neared a branch heavy with snow / bending under the grip of one of the crows.

Translated from Italian by Wallis Wilde-Menozzi

Future

By Antonella Anedda

Only a sign like a silent hiss remains from that time

Translated from Italian by Wallis Wilde-Menozzi

From Watering the Plant of Dreaming (Dialogue with Paul Celan)

By Elisa Biagini

Nights close / inside / my palm, / I touch you / and you are ink.

Translated from Italian by Wallis Wilde-Menozzi

From “Senza Polvere Senza Peso”

By Mariangela Gualtieri

Thus the world is all coal and ashes. / My pots and pans don’t feed the hungry.

Translated from Italian by Wallis Wilde-Menozzi

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